Mocking Bird Wish Me Luck (again)

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This is what we are doing in Blessing's html class:

www.geocities.com/jenufra


I had a great week last week...Met with Sylvia Netzer...got an e-mail from Susan Whyne that said she would send a letter of recommendation...finished delivering Las Quince Letras...went to Greenthumb conference at Hostos College...did some yoga...had some VERY spicy pad Thai with Lindon, Jamal and Socorro...cleaned Harmony's computer room with Jamal then went out in search of slide lables and ended up at IPC's Henri Cartier-Bresion(sp?) exhibit and got inspired to buy a new camera.

American Women in Politics part tres

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Ok here are the ten first first first ladies plus a few more names from "Eyes of the Nation". The first ten obviously "happen to be" fair skinned.

1. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
2. Abigail Smith Adams
3. Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
4. Dolley Todd Madison
5. Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
6. Louisa Catherine (Johnson) Adams
7. Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson
8. Hannah Hoes Van Buren
9. Anna Symmes Harrison
10. Lelitia Christian Tyler

Geraldine Farrar
Doris Ulmann
Hallie Flanagan
Marion Post Wolcott
Esther Bubley
Martha Graham
Lucinda Ballard
Gloria Steinem
Marilyn Monroe
Ruth Orkin
Marian Anderson
Lucille Ball
Jennifer Bartlett
Jacqueline Bouvier-Kennedy
Maya Ying Lin
Lesley Dill
Star Black
Rachael Romero
Lucy Long

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Its that time again...I'm thinking again I migh apply to CCNY's MFA program, so I am putting together some photos of the many accumulated pieces of paper I have drawn or printed on and posting them on a blog called PORTFOLIO 2007.

Check it out and let me know what you think:

www.jeannej2007.blogspot.com

My dream garmet!

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There is a tool kilt pictured on the studio 360 web site...it looks like the best skirt EVER!
Spending yet another day with Samantha and Jake...Jake is home with an ear infection. they are being kind of mellow which is good because I am trying to get the three things done that I didn't get done yesterday. (transcripts, cleaning, skirt.)

The transcripts are turning out to be more complicated that expected because osu is saying i owe them money and i can't just pay them i have to pay the ohio attorney general who is not answering the phone...arrgh...sigh...argh!

In other news, I can totally see why house wives tend to gain weight. It is very easy to eat and eat and eat when trapped in the apartment. Usually Harmony's friend Sarah comes over and gives me a break. I'm not sure if she's coming today or not. It is very cold so I can see why she might want to stay in.

Women in american politics part deux

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Ok...this is the continuation of my search in Eyes of The Nation for female names. Where I can find them I've put wikipedia links.

Francis Benjamin Johnston
Frances Willard
Annabelle Whitford
Bertha Kalish
Dina Fienman
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Hallie Quinn Brown
Alice Mumford Cullen
Helen Lynd
Dorthea Lange



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Happy Valentines Day

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Its offically February and I'm feeling 1, 000 times better now since my visit to Harlem Hospital. Watching Samantha and Jake and listening to studio 360...hoping to get three things done...order transcripts...clean my apartment...and finish the skirt I started.

Blessing Marima the teacher of my CS2 class let me take home a copy on my laptop. I haven't really done much with it yet but I'm hoping to use it to put together the 20 slides I need for the CCNY MFA application. Actually now that I think about it it might be better just to take 35mm slides than try to convert the digital...hmmm...well see how that goes. Seems sweetly archaic(sp?) somehow.

All this time with Sam and Jake is exhausting (exasperating). The big challange is not to get frustrated and angry with them. I think I am moving faster in the free time I do have and I am spending almost no money since I eat over here.

A friend asked me to do some research about american women in politics and i started a list of the few women i found mentioned in Eyes of theNation...here is the partial list:

Phillis Wheatley
Hannah Lewis
Juliann Jane Tillman
Charlotte Cushman
Mary Cassatt
Lillian Gish
Sara Iredell
Susan B. Anthony
Mary S. Anthony
Anna H. Shaw
Dorthea Lynde Dix
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert
Martha C. Wright
Jean Brooks Greenleaf
Julia Ward Howe
Lucy Stone
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Mabel Potter Daggett
Louise Hall
Susan Fitzgerald

In other news...the people at the Colbert Report e-mailed me to say I can go see a taping in March...wooo-hoo!

The History of Animation

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Its Saturday and I am feeling groggy and listless...(sans list?) This may it will have been 20 years since I graduated from high school. That realization hit me (like a...like a...wet terry cloth balloon?) last night. Twenty years seemed some how an impossibly, implausably(sp?)long time. Have I even been alive that long? I guess so...the numbers don't lie.

This morning on WBAI they played Lean On Me our class song...then, Eric Bogosian was talking about 1987 and what a strange year that was. I guess they are doing a play of Talk Radio now. He seemed to be saying it was a bizarre un-play-like play. He talked about how talk radio has changed since then...The advent of Rush Limbaugh and what not. I've been thinking about the history of animation...wouldn't that be a fun class/workshop to teach or attend? I started trying to do some stop motion stuff with coins and Samantha next door who I've been watching while her opera singer mom is starting a new career as an EMT.

I FINALLY got some $$ from the NYS Dept of Labor. (Huge sigh of relief) I was really starting to get nervous as savings account #2, the money I was saving for back rent...drained down to almost nothing. Now I am getting $200 per week from the Dept of Labor...more than enough to live on since I'm not paying rent at the moment. The landlord has yet to serve me with a new petition...looks like they are trying to make some repairs though...Apts 47 and 46 smell like death now...I guess because someone put down some rat poision (sp?)...The smell in 46 is unbearable.

fifth estate, el labrintino del fauno, sticky crepes

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I'm here at the Hamilton Grange Library on 145th...listening to music and trying to get three important things accomplished: Taxes, Grad School Application, and Unemployment Benefits.

This morning I woke up late and tried to make crepes while watching link tv...there was no milk so I thought I could substitute coconut milk...turns out that doesn't work so well...they kept sticking to the pan.

Last night I went to Blue Stockings to see the makers of Fifth Estate Magazine speak...I didn't really know what that was...turns out its an anarchist magazine the title is meant to suggest an alternative to the established media...afterwards I had tea with Mitch then splurged on a ticket to see Pan's Labyrinth at the Sunshine. When I was looking at the movie posters a woman walked by and said, "Pan's Labyrinth is fantastic." She was right. It was fantastic.

fingers numb...computer working...snow falling

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Hi...I'm sitting in Bryant Park using the wireless internet...tis a bit chilly but really not so bad...I hear Austin and LA are colder...which is odd...non?

So today I went down to 40 Rector Street to give my testamony(sp?) about how the police verily barged into Ben's apartment the oter night. I'm glad I went. I didn't even know about the citizens complaint takers thereabouts...the investigator took our stories seperately and yada yada yada...According to their own report, 5% of complaints are found to be justified.

After that Ben walked with me to B&H where I hoped to see about the warranty on my camera...we talked about civil rights and solidarity and got kind of stuck on the subject of whether or not bush and cheney are human...Ben maintained that there is room for doubt...but for the sake of moving on...finally conceeded(sp?).

B&H closed early today...so we got a bite to eat and walked to thebusiness/science research Library where I tried to use the laptop...for some reason they don't have the same wireless connection there as other NYPL's. It was an ethernet wire which seemed to connect to this laptop physically ok but i couldn't figure out how to connect electronically...so here i am out in the cold waiting for Mitch who might stop by in the next ten minutes...although i kind of doubt it at this point.

Saving your life...by Charles Schawb

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Universal Health coverage...Golden Globes...Diabetes...Buy Gold...Kitsune...Dream Girls...Babel...Letters...Flags....Blood Diamond...Nice...you may be eligeble for a free
meter...sick of feeling fat and tired? I'm forty years old...I'm in the best shape of my life....stay indoors...winterstorm in the Heartland...decapitation....oops...pregnant beauty queen...Dr.King...robertsandstofer...snowfrost...citrusgrowers...sean young...devlin...hornbeck...words...point...tall...son...MLK day of service through volunteering...drugs...germs...football...wrestling...euing scarcoma...funding for orphan drugs...surgery...drugs...surgery...drugs...surgery...saving your life...brought to you by charles schawb...bengay...stronger than pain...national reclining month...snore stop...sao paolo...the people in the mini-van...NFC...Bears...Greesy...Grossman...Chargers...LT...disrespect...Martin Luther King Jr....I'm thinking of a number...It's my credit score...You can ind out right now...on the seventeenth...that's trouble nothing is lost liquid crystal television...take on Orbits...always use protection...live from Duhram, NC...the King Center...a moment of reflection...stirring...the legacy...Coreta Scott King...bring home the King Papers...Atlanta is King City...New Ebaneezer...new ehxibit...new insight...IRAQ...hangings with dignity and respect...Casey said...succeed...no guarantees...khalil...Ashley Harder...Congress...Only he can decide...if the people want a scape goat...keep kids safe from preditors...Disney's stocks have surged...cell phone ban...things you are not allowed to do in your car...you can run around looking at house after house...are breathing troubles holding you back? nebulizers...standing by...square dancing...arthritis...thats why we square dance...press box demolished...smoking and driving in CT...Bangor, ME...pick pick pick pick on the smokers...Dan Loafy...Boston...Ice Men...test tube babies...mothers...Cameron...keep wathcing to see how you can save...I think I've scraped rock...bottomed out...hit a new low...started my period. New England now in ice...avoid smoke from the Kentucky River...one worker was slightly hurt...one missing for four days another for four years...where King was Pastor for eight years...students have been sending postcards to victims of Katrina...you're lifting your soul...danceteams, drumlines, and bands...thay saw shawn biking...talking to friends...stockholm syndrome...Devlin...Hornbeck...headline prime...Tecrete...dignity and respect...find out what it means to me...21, 000 additional troups...sustained political suport...sepratist movements...let them slug it out...we will leave behind a middle east that will harm america in the future...overcommitted...more ground troops...the next three to four weeks...4.5 million have alzheimer's...implant an embryo...Daily Express...feeling full...eat 15-20% less food...Shawn Merriman...maybe it comes from the head...coach...engineered a spactacular drive...You give yourself too much credit...how you effect me...51 points...game winning shot...you've got game...wine...fish...by-products...removing grit...how she finally made it out of the wilderness...healthy beautiful skin that lasts....Hyundai Santa Fe...Why does it bother me?

"What, no tip?"

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Yesterday was Jamal's Birthday, so he and Sarah and Dot and I went to Lemongrass and emptied our wallets. Lemongrass at its new location (13th near University) has AMAZING lighting and decor AND there is a great Kareoke (sp?) bar downstairs. (Careful though, the bartender may bite.)

So...the Japanese exhibit and postcard class at 42st library inspired me to do some drawing. There were so many beautiful examples of drawing and printing...and the idea of the new year post card appealed to me. so I think I will spend the day drawing.

We have hot water!!!

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Well today is already turning out to be far better than yesterday...the hot water is on...the sun is out...I think I will go to the class on japanese postcards at the 42nd street library...I did not get up early and go to the Workforce One Center but I can do that next week. Point is: I feel good and I got a shower (finally) and washed some dishes and I am psyched (had some coffee too.)

Also after spending an entire day on freaking MySpace yesterday (that thing is addictive.), I figured some things out and made some MySpace "friends" (I put that in quotes because I really only know Lisa and Dave. I did make "friends" with a guy at OSU who knows Chris Coake and also likes Stephen Dixon (among many others). Now my profile features the wonderful music of my new favorite band tunng. If you notice a preponder(ance?)(ence?) of Jennifers amongst my "friends" it is because I have vowed to try to befriend all jennifer johnsons on MySpace. These are the type of idea one comes up with when there is no job to go to and no hot water with which one might shower and then depart the apartment and it's too bleepin cold to get out from under the blankets...ok I am feeling a little guilty/shameful about spending an entire day on MySpace and trying to make excuses for my self.

ugh....brrr....ugh

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Well...i am freezing as it is finally starting to feel like winter here and the super hasn't decided to turn on the heat. My friend in San Antonio, Lisa asked me to sign up for Myspace account last month which I did then promptly forgot my password...I figured it out today and tried to make the page look less generic but could not figure out how to do it and all the flashing ads were making me nauseous. I did notice that STRAND had a site...which seems signifigantly less nausiating than the generic start up site. I love Lisa but I don't think I have the fortitude to tolerate all the adds long enough to figure out how to make them go away.

If you do have a MySpace page and want to A) be "friends" or B) tell me how to lose the vomit inducing ads please contact me with this information as soon as possible!

resolution number 9

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Ok...Its the second week of the new year...I'm unemployed...I haven't paid rent in over six months...I have an application to CCNY Graduate School to fill out....I'm going to a class at the library tonight called: Mecanografia y Teclado...I'm taking sometime to explore Manhattan and write about it for the NY blog...I just got a letter form the IRS saying I owe them over $200 for some money market account I had forgotten about. I am waiting (still) to see some $$ from the NYS unemployment benefits program...I am planning to continue the Photoshop class through UAW...I'm waiting to hear from the "Made in NY" program to see if I can take advantage of the PA training they offer...I'm hoping to spend some time cooking and dumsterdiving with the NYfreegans...I'm looking for five or ten people who want to start a new art co-op or to find a cool art co-op that will have me...I applied the work at Housing Works and am waiting to hear back from them...I want to re-write my resume and apply to the NYPL...this morning I started mapping a walking/biking route for the west side of Manhattan. There is a warm cat sitting on my foot and it feels really comfortable to be inside on what sounds like a rainy afternoon, none the less I am trying to motivate myself to get up and go outside.

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Hey! I just ran into Socorro's friend Ben at the library. He says all signs are "Go." for tomorrow night. Tonight I plan to see the final show of Strictly Platonic at the pussy cat lounge...I think Dave and Jamal and maybe Lindon will go too.

I can't think of any real news to speak of I love playing with the colors on the blog now.

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I'm back at the library feeling a bit like a monster with my disfigured face but otherwise pretty good...I wasn't selected to be a red hat person at MoMA's Doug Aitken event (que lastima) but life goes on...I am here for a computer class called "Viruses, Hackers, and Spam...Oh, My!" the class was good...a little slowerpaced than other classes but good none the less...I remebered somebasinc things I had been told before about computer maintenance...now I'll go nhome and defrag or scan something.

I am going to try writing for this nyblog...just for fun. Last night dave and I went walking around Penn station so I could have something to write about.

Happy New Year

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New Years Eve was a really good/memorable one...Dave and Jamal and I spent the day practicing a production of a very short play from Incidences (Daniil Kharms) called...oh what was it called? comprehensive research! It was very fun and Dave must have died about ten or fifteen times...every time, I got to check his pulse and pick up his hand and let it drop while Jamal declaired he was in fact dead. Once, a couple came up to us and asked if he was ok. Later we danced and rang the new year in in central park...barefoot (or...well...in stocking feet.) It is oddly not cold here...several natives have confirmed that this is NOT normal weather for NY.

Then we walked around a bit...I found some metal bars on the ground that looked like they had been sawed off of on of the metal police road barriers and was delighted to hit anything that might make a good noise...turns out to be the best...

Back at the library after the interview...I'm not really holding my breath, but kind of...I want the job more now than before the interview...especially since I found out about the hand warmers and walkie talkies...Last night Arnaldo from the freegan-list serve came over and had a chat with Bernardo...That went better than expected as well...Arnaldo was calm and assertive and not intimidated by Bernardo...we drank some hot Airbourne and talked a little about reality and what we want/expect to happen there...Seems we may be able to come up with some solutions. He's an agressively positive thinker (wee bit of suspision about that.) I'll try not to hold that against him.

In spite of the Airborne I woke up with a swollen lip (Herpes...arrgh!) this morning...It has been a long time since this has happened...I want to blame it on the peanuts I ate...ahhh...So...now I have a bit of a head ache and am debating about whether or not to go the the gym.

thank you for the tunng (tuung?)

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I am in love with new york and swimming and the music of Robyn Hitchcock and Venus 3!

http://www.tunng.co.uk/

Get on Up!

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This morning I got up relatively early to go down to the WorkForceOne center on 125th street...at 8:45 people were already lined up outside the Apollo theater...the theater that launched James Brown's career...The were singing "get on up" and dancing trying to stay warm I guess...News vans lined the street...in the orientation for the job center someone said they were still driving the body up from Augusta, GA.

Last night I got a manila envelope from DHCR that I thought might contain the answer to the overcharge question. Before I opened it I thought "oh...god this could be it." This could be my salvation or damnation. If they decide there is an overcharge...I might be getting some money back from the owners if they decide there is not an overcharge or I filed my claim too late then I may be evicted.

It turned out to be a copy of the owner's response and not decision. There was a copy of a lease signed by Chiek Tall and a handwritten statement from (Mr. Nabavi.?) someone...it's hard to read the signature.

It is the last thursday of 2006 and I am back at the library about to use the pay phone to call the unemployment office and see if my claim has been denied or processed yet. If it has that might effect the urgency of my job search.

IF this weather holds up I think I'll go for a bike ride tomorrow.

swimming, laundry, swimming again

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Hi...I'm at the library again...checking the e-mail...on my way to the gym...I wish I had something interesting to write about...I got an e-mail from MoMA about a potential temporary job it is for one month being a sort of usher outside...wearing a red hat...meanwhile this film below will be playing on the windows of MoMA...I would like to do it but it would mean I could not do the "Made in NY" PA training program I applied for yesterday...maybe I will go for the interview and see how that goes.

Still waiting to see what became of the unemployment benefits...Jeanette suggested going down to the office which I did today...they told me to call the hotline...I did find out that they offer all kinds of job services there like resume writing...I think I will try to go to that tomorrow.

sorry about the boring post...oh I did get (finally) a really good (funny) book from serpent's press...its called Incidences by Daniil Kharms...it is very funny if you want to read it after me let me know and I will send it to you.